Nonetheless, the number of births spiked in
May and June — around nine months after the pro hockey lockout began.

"We have been busier over the last three
months," Smith said. "Now whether that's linked at all to the lockout, I
don't know."

According to Hamilton Health Sciences, 549
babies were born at Mac during May and June — a 13 per cent increase
over 2012. In July, however, the number of births appears to have
levelled off.

"I think it's a little simplistic to say
that when men don't have hockey, they have sex," Smith said. "But that's
what people tend to say — they look back nine months whenever we tend
to have a bit of a boom and see what happened."

Ahem. Dr. Smith... the simplest explanation is usually the CORRECT explanation. That said, MY sex life remained non-existent during the lockout.